Lieutenant John Guild Quotes in The Thin Man (1934)

Lieutenant John Guild: You got a pistol permit?

Nick Charles: No.

Lieutenant John Guild: Ever heard of the Sullivan Act?

Nora Charles: Oh, that's all right, we're married.

[Nick has revived Nora after knocking her out to keep her from being accidentally shot by Joe Morelli]

Nora Charles: You darn fool! You didn't have to knock me out. I knew you'd take him, but I wanted to see you do it.

Lieutenant John Guild: [laughs] There's a girl with hair on her chest.

Nick Charles: Say, how did you people happen to pop in here?

Lieutenant John Guild: We hear this is getting to be sort of a meeting place for the Wynant family, so we figured we'll stick around just in case the old boy himself should show up. Then we see this bird sneak in, we decide to come up. And lucky for you we did!

Nick Charles: Yes, I might not have been shot.

Gil: Could I come down and see the body? I've never seen a dead body.

Lieutenant John Guild: Why do you want to?

Gil: Well, I've been studying psychopathic criminology and I have a theory. Perhaps this was the work of a sadist or a paranoiac. If I saw it I might be able to tell.

Lieutenant John Guild: Yeah, that's a good idea. But don't you bother to come down - we'll bring the body right up to you.

Lieutenant John Guild: [Examining the over-sized clothes of a recently-discovered corpse] He must've weighed 250 pounds if he weighed an ounce.

Dr. Walton: [Handing Guild a cane] Here's something.

Lieutenant John Guild: Hmmm. Rubber tip. He must have been lame.

Dr. Walton: Who wouldn't be, carrying all that weight around?

Lieutenant John Guild: Now, look here Charles I guess we're both of us going about this thing in the wrong way. Now, I don't want to get tough with you and I'm sure you don't want to get tough with me. There's just one more question I wanna ask you. Are you willing to swear to a complaint for this guy's pluggin' ya?

Nick Charles: Now, that's another one I can't answer now. Maybe it was an accident?

Nunheim: She's drivin' me nuts. She's been raggin' me all day.

Lieutenant John Guild: Maybe if you quit runnin' around after other women, you wouldn't have so much trouble with this one.

Lieutenant John Guild: Give me that phone! Give me that phone! Bill, pick up Nunheim. Tell the boys. He just left here. Went down the fire escape. Cover the Grand Central and Pennsylvania Stations. Check all airports and all steam ship terminals. What's that? No, no, no. Have Lefty radio all the cars. He was dressed in a black pair of pants. Yes. Yes. Pink unde - how should I know if his underwear's embroidered? What?